UPPSC PCS - 2020

The world becomes a larger place and the more exciting

Year Asked: 2020

A
For a wrestler
B
For a thief
C
For a cheat
D
For a man of trained faculties and developed tastes

Correct Answer

D. For a man of trained faculties and developed tastes

Detailed Explanation

The correct answer is D) For a man of trained faculties and developed tastes. The sentence is about how experience widens for a cultivated mind. A person whose senses and judgement have been trained, and whose tastes have been refined through literature, art, music, history and ideas, finds the world expanding and becoming more interesting with every new encounter. The stem is a reading-comprehension and idiom-based item, so the key is to match the sense of growth and enrichment, not just the grammar.

Why the others fail:

  • A) Wrestler: A wrestler's world is usually confined to the akhara, the training regimen and the bout. Physical discipline is valuable, but it does not by itself enlarge the world in the sense the sentence means.
  • B) Thief: A thief's world narrows, not widens. It shrinks to targets, escape routes and the constant fear of detection.
  • C) Cheat: Like the thief, a cheat lives in a narrow, calculating space built on deception. Their world contracts as trust and opportunity fall away.

The core idea is that education and cultivated taste are what make the world intellectually and emotionally larger. This links directly to the English language paper and to Mains essay themes on education, culture and self-development.

Trap: Students often pick the option that sounds active or adventurous, such as the wrestler or the thief, because the word 'exciting' pulls them there. Excitement here comes from refinement, not from physical or illicit activity.

This question appeared in UPPCS 2020 CSAT Paper.

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