A、It would have been his hundredth birthday. B、He had just been awarded a prize. C、He had just died. D、People had found support

All over the world people paused recently to remember a man whose work most of them could never understand. That man was Albert Einstein, and the occasion was the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. As a child, Einstein was quiet and withdrawn. His parents and some teachers even feared he might be backward. But when a relative showed the five-year-old Albert a compass, he was fascinated. He wondered what forces could be making the needle move. Later he wrote that at that very moment he began to wonder about the universe, and in 1921 Einstein received the Nobel Prize for his work on the concepts of TIME, SPACE and MATTER.