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There are stories about two U.S. presidents, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, which attempt to explain the American English

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问题     There are stories about two U.S. presidents, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, which attempt to explain the American English term OK. We don’t know if either story is true, but they are both interesting.
    The first explanation is based on the fact that President Jackson had very little education. In fact, he had difficulty reading and writing. When important papers came to Jackson, he tried to read them and then had his assistants explain what they said. If he approved of a paper, he would write “all correct” on it. The problem was that he didn’t know how spell, so what he really wrote was “ol korekt”. After a while, he shortened that term to “OK”.
    The second explanation is based on the place where President Van Buren was born, Kinderhook, New York. Van Buren’s friends organized a club to help him become President. They called the club the Old Kinderhook Club, and anyone who supported Van Buren was called “OK”.
According to the first story, the term “OK”________.
选项 A、was approved of by President Jackson
B、was the title of some official documents
C、was first used by President Jackson
D、was an old way to spell “all correct”
答案C
解析 细节推理题。原文提到了“OK”的两个用处，第一个起源于President Jackson，他批准某一文件的时候，会签上“OL korekt”，即“ALL CORRECT”（全对）的错误拼写，后来又将之缩略为“OK”。故选项C“OK由President Jackson首用”符合原文。
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