# PTE Reading MCS #3: Historical War Photography...

Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer #3 - Level 1 - Feeds Reading

> Read the text and answer the question by choosing one option. Only one answer is correct.

When World War II broke out, Robert Capa was in New York, but he was soon back in Europe covering the war for Life Magazine. Some of his most famous work was created on 6th June 1944 when he swam ashore with the first assault on Omaha Beach in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. CAPA, armed only with two cameras, took more than one hundred photographs in the first hour of the landing, but a mistake in the darkroom during the drying of the film destroyed all but eight frames. It was the image from these frames however that inspired the visual style of Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning movie 'Saving Private Ryan'. When Life magazine published the photographs, they claimed that they were slightly out of focus, and Capa later used this as the title of his autobiographical account of the war.

Which sentence best paraphrases this paragraph?

- Capa never tried to avoid danger. He risked his life to take photographs of the D-Day invasion, but then destroyed most of them
- Capa took some of his most famous photographs during the D-Day invasion, but most were tragically destroyed in an accident.
- Capa only kept the best eight D-Day photographs as the others were out of focus. These inspired the visual style of a Hollywood film.
- Capa left Europe when the war broke out and went back to take his most famous photographs of the D-Day invasion.

## Answer

Capa took some of his most famous photographs during the D-Day invasion, but most were tragically destroyed in an accident.

## Explanation

This option accurately reflects the passage: the photographer captured iconic images during the landing, but a technical error in the darkroom caused the loss of the majority of the collection.

## Hints

- Focus on the specific event described in the middle of the passage regarding the film processing.
- Check if the option correctly identifies that the loss was an accident, not a deliberate choice by the photographer.

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