UPSC CDS I 2019 English Paper

Question Numbers: 111-120In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself (1)_____the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question, I find myself in the somewhat (2)______position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a (3)_____. Opinions on such an object as war are the outcome of (4) ______rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, (5) _______on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be (6)______with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical (7)_____are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to (8)______in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally (9)______from a juridical or quasi-juridical (10)________.