[单项选择]Janie waited outside of the operation room in anxiety for her husband's (safe) ______.

[单项选择]Having waited in the waiting room for two hours, he became ______.
A. patient
B. impatient
C. patience
D. impatience

[单项选择]The members of the research group waited anxiously for the final ______ of the experiment.
A. outlook
B. outcome
C. outlet
D. output

[单项选择]One thief went inside while the other waited outside and _________ the police.
A. watched out
B. watched for
C. watched over
D. looked out

[单项选择]John has waited ______.
A. year after year, day after day and hour after hour
B. day after day, year after year and hour after hour
C. day after day, hour after hour and year after year
D. hour after hour, day after day and year after year

[单项选择]For nearly two hours I waited to buy a ticket for the con cert, only ______ that all tickets had been sold out.
A. being told
B. I was told
C. to be told
D. was told

[单项选择]When Langston waited to be saved by Jesus, he saw the lighted candles in the altar _____ in the draught from the opening window.
A. flickering
B. fluttering
C. shivering
D. wavering

[单项选择]For a long while he waited, not daring to descend from his hiding place ______ they should come out and catch him in the act.
A. when
B. lest
C. that
D. where

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Lane waited on the bench nearest the bridge, as he had been instructed. The wind blew straight across the river, sharp as a razor, and he had to pull his overcoat closer about him. He went over his instructions in his mind. The agent would appear at four o’ clock. He would chat to Lane for a while, after which he would get up, leaving his newspaper behind. The plan would be fastened inside. A distant clock began to strike the hour. As if from nowhere, a man appeared and sat down be side Lane, placing his newspaper on the seat between them. He was thin and middle-aged, and seemed in need of a good meat. He bored no resemblance to Lane’ s idea of a successful spy. His conversation, confined to trivial observations about the weather, was painfully uninteresting. A few minutes later he got up and continued on his way. Large picked up the paper which laid on the bench, as if he wanted to look at the news. He was excited to see the plans pinned to the center page. At that m
A. read the news
B. made the plans
C. turned over the pages of the newspaper
D. made a kite out of the newspaper