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Read the text. Choose from choices the one which best fits each space (1-8). The eBay AddictsKatie is ____(1) at her computer, eyes glued ___(2) the screen. It’s 2 am and the eBay auction is about to end. Within minutes the 25-year-old events manager from London will know if she has won another ___(3) of Gucci shoes to add to her collection. The scene may sound familiar. Indeed, eBay – the Internet auction ____(4) – has become a modern phenomenon, with 10 million British users, 135 million _____(5) and up to 600,000 joining every month. The other side-effects of her self-confessed addiction are far more alarming. Katie has spent so much of her substantial £50,000-a-year salary _____(6) e-Bay since discovering it in November that she is already £10,000 in debt. It is not just her finances which are feeling the strain. Her health is also _____(7) under the stress of owing so much, and she has been to see her GP. What horrifies Katie even more is the fact that she can see her personality changing as a ____(8) of her addiction: she admits she is now prepared to lie to cover the extent of the problem.