Question 8 is based on the conversation you have just heard.

Conversation One

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M: How do you like your new flexible working arrangement? Do you enjoy working from home?

W: Yes and no. (8) [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. (9) [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. (10) [I love the noise, the people, the busyness of a 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. (11) [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 their 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 valuable table space in busy periods.

8. What does the woman say is the disadvantage of working from home?

解析：C。对话开头男士问女士是否喜欢在家办公，女士回答喜欢也不喜欢，她认为独处有时很考验人。也就是说，在家办公久了会有一种与世隔绝的感觉，C项中的isolation为原词复现，故正确答案为C。

错项排除：对话中女士虽然提到了my mother，但说的是自己母亲的情况，并没有提到来自孩子的干扰，故排除A项。B项利用录音中出现的quiet作干扰，但“安静的氛围”是男士所说图书馆的缺点，并不是女士所说，故B项错误。D项利用录音中出现的working hours作干扰，但对话中女士是在说没有几个人有空在工作时间打电话聊天，并不是说在家办公时间更长，故D项错误。