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: GAO found that these agencies are in the early stages of using a set of balanced expectations to appraise senior executive performance and there are significant opportunities to strengthen their efforts as they move forward in holding executives accountable for results. Choices: 1. GAO studied how the agencies held their CEOs accountable. 2. GAO studied how the agencies operated. 3. GAO studied how operating budgets worked.
[A]: 1


[Q]: 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.
[A]: 1


[Q]: Statement: For the visitor, the most interesting observances are the modest old standbys generally the saint's day of a  sombre religious processions, often held by candle-light, folk music, a rash of quaint costumes. Choices: 1. There is never any folk music in a religious procession. 2. The religious processions are held by the Catholic faithful. 3. Old fashioned costumes are part of the religious processions.
[A]:
2