Digital SAT Reading and Writing Practice Question #644

Text 1 Some translation theorists suggest that the translation of ancient texts should prioritize strict literal fidelity. To smooth over the idiosyncratic syntax and alien idioms of a primary source is to erase the cognitive distance between the past and present. Translators must resist the urge to make a text comfortably “readable” if doing so obscures the very foreignness that makes the text historically valuable. Text 2 A rigid, literal translation of a millennia-old poem often yields a lifeless husk of the original. If the original text was a vibrant, emotionally resonant piece for its contemporaries, a modern translation must prioritize capturing that emotional impact for today's audience, even if it requires radically altering the original idioms to find modern cultural equivalents. Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the warning about "cognitive distance" issued in Text 1?