When you go out for a walk or a jog, how often do you see litter along the road? Maybe a plastic bottle, some food wrappers, an empty drink can 1 some cigarette butts (烟头)?
Of course, all of this trash is 2 for the environment. But how often do we stop to 3 it up?
Well, a new sport called "plogging" is 4 people to do just that.
Plogging is a combination of the word "jogging" with plocka upp, which 5 "pick up" in Swedish. The idea is simple: pick up litter while you jog!
The word plogging was 6 by the Swedish runner Erik Ahlström, who was unhappy with the litter he saw every time he went for a run. He also created the Plogga website to encourage people everywhere to 7 plogging and hold plogging events.
Stockholm, where Ahlström lives, became the first city to organize a plogging event in 2016, but now the sport is 8 around the world.
The World Plogging Championship has been held every year in Italy 9 2021. In 2024, over 80 ploggers from 13 countries took part in the event and 10 over 1,200 kilograms of trash.
Plogging is good for the environment—and because you're running and squatting (蹲) to pick up litter, it's good for your 11 too. According to the fitness app Lifesum, plogging burns more calories than jogging on 12 own.
And if you invite people to come plogging with you, it becomes a social 13 —and you'll pick up more trash too!
Of course, not everyone likes jogging. But you can 14 picking up trash with all kinds of sports. *The Plogga website 15 doing it while cycling, skateboarding, canoeing or even just walking—"whatever way you choose to get outside and move."

1. A 此处表示选择关系，列举路边可能出现的垃圾，"一个塑料瓶，一些食品包装纸，一个空饮料罐或者一些烟头"，故用 or 连接。
2. B 由常识可知，垃圾对环境是有害的。be bad for 意为"对……有害"。
3. D 这里指停下来捡起垃圾。pick up 为固定短语，意为"捡起"。
4. B 句意为"一项名为'慢跑捡垃圾'的新运动正鼓励人们这样做。" encourage 意为"鼓励"。
5. A 此处是对"plogging"的解释。mean 意为"意思是"。
6. D 这里指"also created"可知，"plogging"这个词是由瑞典跑步者埃里克·阿赫斯特罗姆创造的。
7. A 句意为"他还创建了 Plogga 网站，鼓励世界各地的人们开始从事慢跑捡垃圾这项运动，并举办慢跑捡垃圾活动。" take up 意为"开始从事"。
8. C 从"but now"可知，现在这项运动在全世界传播，spread 有"传播；扩散"之意。
9. A 由本句中的"every year"可知，2021 年为开始年，由此推出，句意为"自 2021 年以来，世界慢跑捡垃圾锦标赛每年都在意大利举行。" since 意为"自……以来"。
10. C 此处讲的是参加活动的人收集了 1200 多千克的垃圾。collect 意为"收集"。
11. C 因为参与者在跑步和蹲下捡垃圾，所以对健康也有益。health 意为"健康"。
12. B on one's own 意为"独自地"，这里指代 jogging，用 its。
13. A 由众多人参与的活动就变成了一种社交活动。activity 意为"活动"。
14. B 句意为"但是你可以把捡垃圾和各种运动结合起来。" combine...with...意为"把……和……结合起来"。
15. B 句意为"Plogga 网站建议在骑自行车、玩滑板、划独木舟甚至只是走路的时候进行捡垃圾活动"。suggest 意为"建议"