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Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Rumors have swirled for years about the mystical phone, which Facebook introduced at its headquarters today. For the financial sake of Facebook, its imperative that the new phone-- manufactured by HTC, carried by ATT and sporting an Android operating system--sells well. Its the linchpin in the social-networking companys pursuit of mobile ads, The $ 99 phone goes on sale April l2. The phone/service features Home , downloadable software that brings the Facebook experience to several Android devices: HTC One X, HTC One X +, Samsnng Galaxy SIII and Samsumg Galaxy Note II. At first blush, the new phone could find a receptive audience among the nnder-25 crowd, which is comfortable with having their mobile devices within reach at all times. Facebook chafes at suggestions that teens and twenty somethings are leaving the social network, so a phone immersed in news updates and other Facebook features might go over well. Facebook, the No. 2 mobile-ad publisher in the U. S. behind Google, last year accounted for 9. 5% of the $ 4. 1 billion mobile ad market. Its expected to take I3% of the $ 7. 3 billion market this year, estimates researcher eMarketer. A phone could hard wire the Facebook experience on a mobile device, increasing consumers time on the service, analysts say. But the experience has to be more than a branded device, they say. Branded phones from Barclays and Mary Kay did not fare well. | 
