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Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Terry Wolfisch Cole may seem like an ordinary 40-year-old mom, but her neighbors know the truth: Shes one of the Pod People. At the supermarket she wanders the aisles in a self-contained bubble, thanks to her iPod digital music player. Through those little white ear buds, Wolfisch Cole listens to a playlist mixed by her favorite disc presenter-herself. At home, when the kids are tucked away, Wolfisch Cole often escapes to another solo media pod- but in this one, shes transmitting instead of just receiving. On her computer web log, or blog, she types an online journal chronicling daily news of her life, then shares it all with the Web. Wolfisch Cole-who also gets her daily news customized off the Internet and whose digital video recorder (DVR)scans through the television wasteland to find and record shows that suit her tastes-is part of a new breed of people who are filtering, shaping and even creating media for themselves. They are increasingly turning their backs on the established system of mass media that has provided news and entertainment for the past half-century. Theyve joined the exploding iMedia revolution, putting the power of media in the hands of ordinary people. The tools of the movement consist of a bubbling stew of new technologies that include iPods, blogs, podcasts, DVRs, customized online newspapers, and satellite radio. | 
