Dinner parties are out of date. Alumni (毕业生,校友) album are old-fashioned. School leaving is taking on a new turn：it is going online! Graduating students at Qinghua University are saving all their joys and sorrows from university on a CD. Some are setting up their alumni records online, such as Chinaren.com and 5406.net. With computer usage and Internet access becoming even more popular, students are throwing away the traditional graduation book. Instead they are using alumni books online, in CDs or disks, electrolyzing(电解) their graduation in the e-age. "It is much easier and safer to save." Xu Ziguo, a civil-engineer-major at Qinghua University said. Like his class, most of Qinghua's to-be graduates are using the CD alumni records and online association. Xu said CD records can save more than the actual books. Photos and videos on school activities and normal campus life, and messages may be all included in the thin plastic with the help of a CD-Writer. "Everything is so lively when I watch it, just like what is happening on campus," Xu said. Another student at the Renmin University of China, Lu Yangzhen said her class saved all the memorable messages on a disk. They use a common chat room online to communicate after graduation. Many classes will keep their homepages on campus for future communication, Lu said. Dotcom companies are also seizing the opportunity to get more clicks. Chinaren.com said it provided improved services for the users. One service is to send group emails, meaning if a user sends an email to one address, all his or her classmates can get it at the same time. But what if the Dotcom company breaks down one day? Xu said they had left a "backup". That is to use the old way with a person working as the liaison. 55. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. Dotcom Companies Serve Graduating Students B. Computer Usage Becomes More and More Popular C. Dinner Parties Are Out of Date D. Alumni Reunions Arrive Online 56. Why do they electrolyze their graduation in the e-age? A. Because they found the traditional form was inconvenient. B. Because many students can afford to buy a computer. C. Because computers become more and more popular. D. Because it is much easier and safer to save, and everything is lively. 57. What kind of service is provided by Dotcom companies? A. If a user sends an email to one of his or her classmates, the others can get it at the same time. B. If a user sends an email to a certain address, all his or her classmates can get it at the same time. C. It isn't mentioned in the passage. D. Users can use a common chat room online to communicate after graduation. 58. What does the underlined word "album" most probably mean? A. a kind of book B. dinner C. present D. photo |