He missed the sights, smells and sounds of his own neighborhood.
<u>Explanation</u>:
- Colin had travelled a half-way around the world and he didn't have a hard time. He had been wondering who might he would become after those travels.
- But he longed for his home, his real home in England. He missed his friends, sights, smells and sounds of his neighborhood. Before the thought of joining the conversation with the guide,he thought of this in his mind.
<span>If you look at the title of the novel, it already gives you a hint that it's about a person who had to chance places, move from one place to another and presumably misses their home. The mixture of languages - the old and the new one -show the loneliness, as she probably can't communicate to anyone, since her sentences are unintelligible to other people - so the correct answer would be D. </span>
The first option of "friction and air resistance being the reason for him to slow down
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