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: What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat. Choices: 1. Commoditization works for industrialized nations not by being a reality but by being a threat. 2. Commoditization works not by being a reality but by being a threat. 3. Commoditization works not by being a threat but by being a reality.
1

Statement: Well, then, let's go back. Choices: 1. Well then let us not return to where we came from. 2. Well then, let us return to where we came from. 3. Well then, let us revert to our position.
3

Statement: The Department points out that due to the programmatic changes mandated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, there were no significant alternatives available that would both accomplish the objectives of the act and minimize any significant economic impact on the small entities. Choices: 1. There are loads of great alternatives to use.  2. The possible alternatives are stupid and don't help at all.  3. There aren't any alternatives that will work. 

2