In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.

Q: Statement: we were kind of in for a rude awakening they had personal property taxes on like cars and the first year we're there it was like eight hundred dollars and we're like Choices: 1. The personal property taxes were very low. 2. When the bill for personal property taxes for cars came we weren't sure if we could afford it. 3. We were surprised they had personal property taxes on cars.

A: 2
****
Q: Statement: I remembered Mary as she lay white and exhausted on the sofa, listening, listening.  Choices: 1. Mary lay pale on the sofa as she listened. 2. What Mary was listening to made her pale in the face. 3. Mary sat on the sofa as she listened.

A: 2
****
Q: Statement: But the quirk disappeared as he turned to face the man in the blue uniform. Choices: 1. The quirk ceased when he turned to look at the blue uniformed man. 2. The quirk continued and grew more violent as he looked at the blue uniformed man.  3. The man in the blue uniform demanded to know who he was.

A:
3
****