Read the paragraph. 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? flung hurled tossed threw

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.

Explanation:

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)