TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Statement: The whole field of biology has rested precariously on a single data point--life on Earth. Choices: 1. Biology is about one point- life on Earth, and is going to be like this for many years. 2. Biology is about one point- life on Earth. 3. Biology is about one point- life on Mars.

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Statement: It's a phase some kids go through. Choices: 1. Some children go through that phase.  2. Kids do not go through phases. 3. Sucking their thumb is a phase children go through. 

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: At the far end of the Via dell'Abbondanza, visit two of the town's best the House of Loreius Tiburtinus, for its beautiful peristyle garden of fountains, water channels, and cascades, one of them with paintings of Narcissus and Pyramus and Thisbe; and the House of Julia Felix, big enough to have been perhaps a luxury hotel, with its own bathhouse and a handsome portico of slender marble columns around the peristyle. Choices: 1. The only way to reach the two best houses is by following the Via dell'Abbondanza to the end. 2. The two houses at the end of Via dell'Abbondanza that were once the towns best, but have since been overrun with squatters. 3. Two of the best houses in town to visit are the House of Loreius Tiburtinus, and the House of Julia Felix.

SOLUTION:
1