Max _______ the book of poetry aside. Even though he had read it twice, the poems made little sense to him. Why couldn’t people
just say what they meant, without resorting to flowery language and loopy sentences? He rubbed his eyes, gave himself a minute to calm down, and then found the book, where it had landed underneath the bed. “OK, third time’s the charm,” he said as he started reading again. What verb best completes the sentence?
Answer: Hurled. Max was clearly frustrated about the book because he felt that there should be fewer words to explain the same thing that was being portrayed in the book. As he was trying to comprehend what he was reading, he became upset and hurled the book which landed under his bed. Max found the book after calming himself down and regaining his composure and continued reading even though this was his 3rd time reading this book.
The question is incomplete. Based on the full question, it is statistical.
This is an excerpt from Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics.
The excerpt gives the statistical data of the wrestlers. The win-loss percentage between 7-7 wrestlers and 8-6 wrestlers is judged when either one of them is in the bubble the next time.
There will not be pressure in the individual match. They win only 40% of the rematches.
