Ⅲ.阅读理解
Every year thousands of young people in England finishschool and then take a year off before they start work or go touniversity.Some young people go to other countries and workas volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help people.Forexample, they work in schools or hospitals, or they dosomething helpful for the environment.

Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales.Next year shewants to go to university to study Chinese, but now she'sliving in Belize.Pauline says, "I'm working with other peoplehere to save the coral reefs(珊瑚礁)in the sea near Belize.The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water isvery polluted(污染),the coral will die.I'm helping to doresearch on the coral and the fish that live around the
reefs.All over the world, coral reefs are dying.We need to dosomething about the problem before it's too late."