【正确答案】Picture-taking is a technique both for annexing the objective world and for expressing the unique self. Photographs present existing objective realities that only the camera can disclose. They also reveal an individual photographer's temperament as reflected from the way he uses the camera to crop reality. That is, photography involves two antithetical concepts. On the one hand, photography presents the world and the photographer is a mere observer playing an insignificant role. On the other hand, photography is an instrument of intrepid subjective quest while the photographer determines everything.

【答案解析】1．本段主体信息为科学描述与评论，故采用一般现在时为总体时态。
2．第1句的“兼并”可译为annex。“独特自我”可译为unique self或singular self。
3．“通过照相机剪裁现实”按摄影专业术语应译为crop reality，当然，如果不知道这个术语，在考试环境下，也可意译为recreate reality或represent reality，表达出原文的基本意思。
4．第4句的“观念”应译为concept。