The camera never lies - Test 1

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English Advanced 1, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

venue

setting

background

surrounding

calling

naming

attributing

acknowledging

false

faulty

fake

fictional

arranged

spaced

settled

distributed

categorically

unavoidably

substantially

undeniably

weakens

undermines

demolishes

dismantles

letting

supporting

enabling

empowering

fantasy

legend

dream

myth

Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Sherlock Holmes stories, (0) ___ himself to be a rational man, a scientist even. But in 1920, when he saw photographs of fairies taken in a garden (1) ___ , he thought he was seeing scientific proof that these tiny creatures really existed. He published the photographs alongside an article he wrote, (2) ___ fairies as supernatural wonders. It was not until 1939 that the two ladies who took the photos admitted these were (3) ___ . They simply cut out pictures of fairies from a book and (4) ___ them among flowers. The results are (5) ___ beautiful. But the simplicity of the trick (6) ___ a basic principle of photography, that the camera cannot lie. But it can, and always could. Today, we are used to computer software (7) ___ us to rework our digital images and it is a (8) ___ that photography ever had a true age of innocence. From the moment cameras began capturing reality, that reality was being altered.

The camera never lies

esteemed

viewed

regarded

believed

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