Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense.
A new addiction...(recently/emerge)-to soap operas- and the world’s first clinic to treat people obsessed with the soaps...(open) next week. Victims...(come) from every walk of life - from company directors to cleaners. Symptoms of addiction...(include) refusing to miss an episode and watching recorded episodes again and again. One victim...(explain) how he...(become) addicted five years ago. His obsession...(be) unable to keep a steady relationship. “When my friends...(come around), I was more interested in the soaps . It was almost as if the people on TV...(become) my friends instead.