Reading Comprehension Test 5

Read the poem and answer the question that follows:

Ha long bay is the premier tourist destination in northern Vietnam. The vast majority of visitors come on organized tours from Hanoi, traveling by road to Ha Long City on the bays northern shore.
While an organized tour is without doubt the easiest option, its perfectly possible--though not necessarily any cheaper--to do it under your own steam. Both Ha Long City and Cat Ba, the other main jumping--off point, on the southern edge of the bay, can be easily reached by public transport.

[passage-header]Read the following conversation and choose the appropriate option to fill in the blanks:[/passage-header]Arvind: I've just started going to a new gym.
Shobha: Oh, really? Me ____ (1)_____. Which gym?
Arvind: It's called Fitlife.
Shobha: That's not my gym. _____ (2)______, I've heard of it and the trainer.
Arvind: I don't like the trainer _____ (3)______ the decor is great!
Shobha: My friends say he's _____ (4)______ hard of hearing or rude.
Arvind: I don't know. I've only been twice.

RD : When you were in prison all those years ago on Robben Island and elsewhere, was there something that came back to you, something you had either in your mind, a message or passage from a book, a song, something that helped sustain you and keep up your spirits?
Mandela : There was a poem by an English poet, W. E. Henley, called Invictus. The last lines go :
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate :
I am the captain of my soul.

RD : When you were in prison all those years ago on Robben Island and elsewhere, was there something that came back to you, something you had either in your mind, a message or passage from a book, a song, something that helped sustain you and keep up your spirits?
Mandela : There was a poem by an English poet, W. E. Henley, called Invictus. The last lines go :
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate :
I am the captain of my soul.

Read the passage and answer the question that follow. 
"Counting"
Archaeologists believe that counting large quantities began about 10,000 years ago. Early farmers had to account for communally stored crops. Early counting systems involved the use of small tokens which represented farmers' stores. In the area which is now Southern Iraq, little figures shaped like discs, balls and pyramids were used from about 7500 BC, to represent various holdings. Later, marks which represented the figures were inscribed on clay tablets by use of a blunt reed to cut into the wet clay. Still, the symbols were always connected with specific merchandise. Around 3000 BC, people began using clay tablets and a now accounting system which they perfected over the next 4.000 years. A writing system called cuneiform, which consisted of wedge-shaped symbols, was also invented. At the same time, other cultures were independently developing numbering and writing systems. Soon philosophers began to discover that nature was subject to laws which could be expressed with numbers. 

Read the poem and answer the question that follows: