7．Take 包括；吸收

8．a great/good 许多；很多

on

means

life

up

team

out

in

many

9．apply 申请；请示得到

10．in 另外

11． one's dream 实现梦想

12． the view 欣赏风景

for

addition

achieve

admire

Ⅲ.课文原句突破

1．Scientists believe that these settlers crossed the Bering Strait in the Arctic to America by means of a land bridge which existed in prehistoric times.

[信息提取]　by means of用某种办法，借助于某事物。

[例句仿写]　思想可以借助于音乐来表达。

Thoughts can also________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________.

【答案】　be expressed by means of music

2．By the time California elected to become the thirty­first federal state of the USA in 1850，it was already a multicultural society.

[信息提取]　by the time连词，意为"到......时"。

[例句仿写]　当他14岁的时候，他就已经自学了数学。

________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________