The Maldives is famous as a tourist destination because of its pleasant weather, heavenly beaches and lagoons, luxurious holiday resorts and the peace-loving people. The Maldives is well known for being the lowest country in the world. Unfortunately, this small country with idyllic natural beauty is under threat from rising sea level due to global warming. Many predictions have been made with respect to Maldives being swept away by the rising water level in the Indian Ocean. The government of the Maldives has begun to purchase land from nearby countries for resettling its people in case the islands go under water.
In order to highlight threats of global warming to its low lying islands, the government of the Maldives held a cabinet meeting underwater in 2009. That was the first ever underwater cabinet meeting in the world.
Read the following text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
The Maldives is an (a) ______ for the tourists from around the world. Particularly, its (b) ______ weather, peace loving people and holiday resorts are its resources that allure the tourists mostly. Here modest weather (c) ______ almost all time of the year. But it is a matter of sheer misfortune that the country is (d) ______ with the threat of going under water owing to increasing global warming. The Tsunami of 2004 bears a (e) ______ to this harsh truth.