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.

Statement: Unemployment hovers near 50 percent. Choices: 1. Unemployment rate hovers at 100 percent, we are in trouble. 2. We have an unemployment rate around 50 percent. 3. Almost half of all Americans are unemployed.
3

Statement: A draft summary of the Health Security Act, released in September of 1993, contained a chart showing projected growth for Medicare slowing to less than 6 percent by 1997, and less than 5 percent by 1999. Choices: 1. Medicare's overall growth did indeed slow to less than 6 percent by 1997, and less than 5 percent by 1999.  2. the 1993 draft summary showing projected growth for Medicare increasing rapidly over the coming years.  3. The draft summary of the Health Security Act was released in September of 1993. 
1

Statement: His clothes fit perfectly, and he had a brilliant bushy beard that I knew to be a fake. Choices: 1. He had a big beard he had glued on. 2. His face was bare. 3. HE had a big beard.

1