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: Specifically, although most public companies are required to have a board that is comprised of a majority of independent directors and certain key committees are required to be comprised solely of outside directors, a closer look reveals that the independence of many boards may be more a matter of form than substance. Choices: 1. Public companies can put whoever they want on their boards. 2. Most public companies have to have a board of independent directors. 3. Most public companies have to have a board of independent directors that have MBAs.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: Miss Howard has previously made up a cock and bull story about him and Mrs. Raikes to account for his holding his tongue afterwards.  Choices: 1. No one believed the story that Miss Howard has made up. 2. Miss Howard has never made any suspicious stories. 3. He held his tongue, and Miss Howard made up a story to account for it.

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Statement: Our estimate assumes that crops are evenly mixed between relatively sensitive and relatively insensitive varieties. Choices: 1. There is an assumption that half the crops are relatively sensitive. 2. Our estimate makes no assumption as to the proportion of different crop varieties. 3. Relatively insensitive varieties of crops are more profitable than the more sensitive kinds.

SOLUTION:
3