UPSC CDS English Cloze Test Part 2 Questions

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CLOZE COMPREHENSION
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself ___(91)____ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___(92)____ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view thatwar is under all circumstances a ____(93)____. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of ___(94)___ rather than of thought: given a man’s emotional temperament, has convictions, ____(95)____ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be ____(96)____ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ____(97)____ are feeling; all that thought can do is to clarity and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifiying and systematizing of my own feeling that I wish to ___(98)____ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally ___(99)____ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___(100)____
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