EU farmers protest

The warning from farmers is that Europe ¹is drowning in milk. Plummeting milk prices ²have led farmers to protest on the streets of Brussels. Police said that  farmers and close to tractors were at the ³demonstration. And the scenes seemed to ⁴have made a difference. EU Agricultural ministers announced a 500 million euro aid package focused on helping milk producers.

Russia is one of the EU’s main agricultural export markets worth some  billion ⁵annually. The Russian ban on imports of EU food products and the deregulation of the market hit dairy farmers this year. Changing dietary habits and slowing demand from China have also affected prices for dairy products. The environment secretary Liz Truss planned to call for the creation of a dairy future’s market, similar to those for grain and ⁶sugar, ⁷which the government says will give the UK’s dairy farmers more certainty over future prices. Some ⁸farmers have called for milk production quotas to be reintroduced to avoid ⁹them having to sell at a loss.

_{Available at: http://www.newsinlevels.com. Accessed on Sept. 15th, 2015. Adapted.}

Read the sentences I, II, III and IV. Then, check the correct answer according to the Text.

I. “is drowning” (ref. 1) is a future action.

II. “have led” (ref. 2) and “have made” (ref. 4) are both actions happening in the present.

III. “demonstration” (ref. 3) and “annually” (ref. 5) are words formed with prefixes.

IV. “which” (ref. 7) refers to “sugar” (ref. 6) and “them” (ref. 9) refers to “farmers” (ref. 8).