【正确答案】 1、正确答案：Braving the bitter cold, I traveled more than seven hundred miles back to my hometown, I had left over twenty years ago. It was late winter. As we drew near my hometown, the day became overcast and cold wind blew into the cabin of our boat, while all we could see through the slits in our bamboo awning were a few desolate villages, void of any sign of life, scattered far and near under the somber yellow sky. I could not help feeling depressed. Ah! Surely this was not the hometown I had always been remembering for the past twenty years? My hometown I remembered was not in the least like this. It was much better in my memory. But if you asked me to recall its peculiar charm or describe its beauties, I had no clear impression, no words to describe it. And now it seemed this was all there was to it. Then I rationalized the matter to myself:the hometown is always like this, and although it has not been improved, it is still not so depressing as I imagine: it is only my mood that has changed, because I am coming back this time in bad mood. This time I had come with the sole object of saying goodbye. The old house our family had lived in for so many years had already been sold to another family, and was to change hands before the end of the year. I had to hurry there before the lunar New Year"s Day to say goodbye forever to the familiar house, and to move to another place where I was working, far away from my hometown. Put the following into English．