Question 9 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.

9. What does the man say is counterproductive to getting work done in the library?

解析：B。通过选项中的doesn’t offer、doesn’t have、lacks等含有否定意义的词，推测题目有可能询问某一事物的缺点。录音中男士说到，他也不喜欢去图书馆办公，他认为图书馆有点太安静了（too quiet），会让人缺乏灵感和动力，工作时间久了只会适得其反（counterproductive）。B项内容为原词复现，故正确答案为B。

错项排除：A项利用录音中出现的coffee作干扰，但录音中有关coffee的内容说的都是咖啡馆，并没有说图书馆是否提供咖啡，故A项错误。C、D两项在录音中均未提及，故排除。