Question

QUESTION 21

Answer 1

Answer:

a). gray matter    

Explanation:

A decaying urban neighborhood may be defined as the process where a previously active and functioning town or city area are now falls into disuse and despair. Decaying urban locality or town are identified by empty plots, abandoned buildings, high crime rates, unemployment, no schooling and community service, landscape which is generally desolate and at despair.

Children growing up in those areas will be less advanced and will lack in learning.

In the context, Chou who had grown up in such a decaying urban neighborhood will have difficulty when he enters school due to the decreased amount of the gray matters in his brain.

Gray matters are considered as an important matter of the nervous system which is very critical memory, other cognitive abilities or learning.