medium · Enhanced ACT reading
Read the following passage:
"Proponents of the new translation praised it for clarity, and clarity it certainly delivered: every archaic inversion smoothed, every ambiguous pronoun pinned to a single referent. Yet something had gone out of the poem. The older version's stubborn obscurities had forced the reader to slow, to circle a line three times before its meaning surfaced—and that labor had been part of the meaning. By resolving every difficulty in advance, the new translation spared its readers the very effort that the poem had been designed to demand."
Which of the following best states the central claim the author advances about the new translation?
- Its clarity, though genuine, removes a productive difficulty that was essential to the poem's effect.
- It is inferior because it contains numerous errors in rendering the original poem's archaic grammar.
- It succeeds where the older version failed by finally making the poem accessible to ordinary readers.
- It proves that older translations are always richer and more rewarding than any modern revision.
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