A、People don’t order anything. B、People bring their laptops and paperwork. C、People occupy valuable table space in quiet times.

M: How do you like your new flexible working arrangement? Do you enjoy working from home?
   W: Yes and no. I find an 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 cafés occasionally. I love the noise, the people, the busyness of the café, the sense of being out in the world.
   M: Coffee shops seem to have affectively become office spaces for so many people in this digital age, though I’m not sure how café 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 café 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 the laptops into a power outlet. I nearly tripped over someone’s computer electrical lead the other day in my local café.
   W: It’s a double-edged sword. No doubt about that for a café owner. While remote workers help to keep the café full in quiet times, they can take up the valuable table space in busy periods.
   Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
   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 café?
   11. What is most annoying for café owners according to the woman?