In many ancient societies, children were taught practical skills through apprenticeships rather than formal schooling.
在许多古代社会，孩子们通过学徒制而非正规教育学习实用技能。
A longitudinal study tracking over a thousand children from kindergarten through high school found that early social skills, such as sharing and cooperating with peers, predicted later academic achievement more strongly than early reading or math scores did.
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A linguist argues that children raised in bilingual households develop certain executive function skills, such as task-switching ability, earlier than children raised in monolingual households.
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A linguist argues that children who are read aloud to daily before age five develop larger vocabularies by age eight than children who are read aloud to only occasionally, independent of household income.
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Which choice best defines “children”?
A — Young human beings below the age of puberty. “children” means young human beings below the age of puberty.
Which word means “young human beings below the age of puberty”?
B — children. “children” means young human beings below the age of puberty.
children — young human beings below the age of puberty. In Chinese: 孩子们.
children is pronounced /ˈtʃɪldrən/.
In many ancient societies, children were taught practical skills through apprenticeships rather than formal schooling. (在许多古代社会，孩子们通过学徒制而非正规教育学习实用技能。)
youngsters, kids, youth — all close in meaning to children (young human beings below the age of puberty).
adults, elders — each the opposite of children (young human beings below the age of puberty).
Yes. children is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.