A、It doesn’t offer coffee. B、It’s too quiet. C、It doesn’t have free Wi-Fi. D、It lacks the material he needs. B

M: How do you like your new flexible working arrangement? Do you enjoy working from home?
W: Yes and no. I find isolation challenging at times. Apart from my mother, not too many people I know have time for phone chats during working hours.  I tried the library, but found I wasn’t really keen on working there.
M: No, neither would I. I find the library a bit too quiet. I’d lack inspiration or stimulation, which would be counterproductive to getting a lot of work done.
W: I find the same thing. So, lately I’ve been going out to cafes occasionally. I love the noise, the people, the busyness of the cafe, the sense of being out in the world.
M: Coffee shops seem to have effectively become office spaces for so many people in this digital age, though I’m not sure how cafe owners feel about it having so many people who go to their places to work rather than drink and eat.
W: Yes, some people seem to spend a lot of time there and not order much. The most annoying ones for cafe owners must surely be those usually only two of them who occupy a table for six with their laptops and paperwork.
M: They should sit at a table for two, not the table for six. Some obviously stay so long. They need to plug their laptops into a power outlet. I nearly tripped over someone’s computer electrical lead the other day in my local cafe.
W: It’s a double-edged sword. No doubt about that for a cafe owner. While remote workers help to keep the cafe full in quiet times, they can take up valuable table space in busy periods.
8. What does the woman say is the disadvantage of working from home?
9. What does the man say is counterproductive to getting work done in the library?
10. What does the woman like about doing one’s work in a cafe?
11. What is most annoying for cafe owners according to the woman?