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专业英语四级分类模拟70READING COMPREHENSIONTEXT AIf you want to know how I spend my money, go to B. Each time I make a purchase on my credit card, the amount Ive spent and the name of the place Ive spent it automatically pop up on this weird new site. Why would any sane person volunteer to publicize that information? Philip Kaplan, a technology entrepreneur and one of Blippys co-founders, hazards a guess: To tell people—friends acquaintances, maybe even strangers—a little bit more about you. ? ?I had a different theory. If large numbers of people could see and comment on what I was buying, maybe I would be shamed into spending less. Could there be a practical use for the exhibitionism and groupthink of social networking? Location-centric sites like Foursquare encourage people to blast where they are and what theyre buying. But Blippy takes things to a new level, since information goes straight from point of purchase to website. You dont have to push a single button; just agree to let Blippy broadcast the details that end up on your credit-card statement. Marketers are constantly mining all sorts of consumer data, and Blippy—which has received seed ?money ?from big-name investors ?like ?Sequoia Capital ?and Twitter CEO Evan Williams—wants to help individuals start harnessing this kind of information too. ? ?Conversations on Blippy occasionally revolve around how people should spend less for things. If you pay more than $29.99 a month for a gym membership, expect to hear about it. But more often the comments are pro-purchase. Thats especially true when people choose to specify what theyre buying on sites such as Amazon, iTunes and Netflix. ? ?During my first month on Blippy, which was in beta (测试) until Jan. 14, my inclination for eating at Mexican restaurants quickly became a topic of conversation among the strangers who started following me on the site. As I scrolled through other users purchases, I was reminded that most people sometimes go to grocery stores instead of eatin