Feature Read the following paragraph from “Katherine Johnson Biography.” Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools is something that many people would consider one of their life’s most notable moments, but it’s just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson’s long and remarkable life. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in 1918, Katherine Johnson’s intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. By thirteen, she was attending high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College. At eighteen, she enrolled in the college itself, where she made quick work of the school’s math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Katherine graduated with the highest honors in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia.




What is the author’s point in this paragraph?

(A: Because of her advanced math skills and natural curiosity, Katherine is an outstanding student.)


(B: Katherine is one of three students to be selected to attend graduate school.)


(C: When she is only thirteen years old, Katherine attends a high school located on a college campus.)


(D: Katherine becomes a public school teacher after she graduates from college.)