Information and IdeasVery hardMain idea: a translator's choice of words
Information and Ideas practice question
The translator refused to use any word that had entered English after 1700, though the novel was written in 1920. She wanted, she said, the reader to feel the book's age in its very vocabulary. Reviewers found the result strange at first and then, by the third chapter, could not imagine the book in any other words.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. The translator's deliberate limit on vocabulary, odd at first, came to seem inseparable from the book.Correct
- B. The novel was written in 1920.
- C. English gained many words after 1700.
- D. Reviewers disliked the translation.
Answer: A. The translator's deliberate limit on vocabulary, odd at first, came to seem inseparable from the book.
A strange choice that came to feel right.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The novel was written in 1920.
- A detail.
- C. English gained many words after 1700.
- Implied, not the point.
- D. Reviewers disliked the translation.
- They came to accept it.
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