III. Choose the word that best fits the blank space in the following passage. (1.5 pts)

Couples in Thailand tie the knot on elephants on Valentine‘s Day
Fifty-nine couples in Thailand got married while riding elephants on Sunday, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding (17) _________ at a botanical garden in a province east of Bangkok.
Dancers and a band led the procession of elephants and couples and a (18) ________ official, also on an elephant, oversaw the signing of the marriage license.
“For me, I’ve been planning for a long time that if I were to sign a marriage license one day, it must be an extraordinary event,” said groom Fatiphat Panthanon, 26, sitting beside his (19) _________ bride.
The elephant-back wedding is an annual event at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chonburi province which usually attracts up to a hundred couples. But this year (20) _________ the coronavirus pandemic, the numbers were down.
Kampon Tansacha, president of the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, said that due to strict screening protocols for visitors, people were feeling (21) _________ and have started to come back to visit the botanical park, (22) _______ showcases recreations of landscaped gardens from around the world.