Identify the primary paragraph pattern used in the following example.

Being a good reader is somewhat like driving a car; both reader and driver must learn to shift gears skillfully. Just as road conditions that require slow, careful driving call for first gear, a difficult text requires slow, thoughtful reading to be understood and remembered. Similarly, the driver can shift to second gear if he wants to go slightly faster. Second gear is useful to a reader of textual material which is not difficult but which must be remembered. On the open road a driver shifts to third. Third gear in reading is used for pleasure reading of magazines or novels. Both reader and driver sometimes use passing gear. This gear is particularly useful to a reader who wants to skim a chapter as a review for a test or to preview an article to determine whether he wishes to read it. Just as driving in first gear at all times is inappropriate and inefficient, reading speeds must be shifted to suit conditions.

simple listing
order of importance
comparison and contrast
time order
spatial development
cause and effect

Comparison and contrast organizational pattern is a type of organizational structure in writing in which the author analyses two or more elements, subjects or topics by finding the similarities and differences between them. For doing this, the author can analyze one element first and then the other or analyze both elements at the same time. Additionally, to this, it is common the differences and similarities found by the author are used to make a point or show something to the reader.

In the case presented, the author compares and contrast the action of reading to the action of driving, for doing this the author uses certain elements such as the gears and the road to make different points about readin. This means the author of this text uses the similarities and differences of both elements to make a clear point and therefore as the author compares and contrasts two elements the pattern used in this text can be classified as comparison and contrast.