UPSC CDS I 2019 English Paper

Directions: Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given.Select whichever words or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordinglyThe 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)____