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: The third-most-visited Gore site, according to Direct Hit, is an Al Gore joke repository, posted on the home page of a GeoCities member and sponsored by the Ripon College Republicans. Choices: 1. The grop agrees with it a.. 2. The College Republicans disagree with everything on the side. 3. The Ripon College Republicans host the GeoCities site.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: to confront questions as old as human civilization itself. Choices: 1. To answer ancient, age-old queries. 2. To address questions which will never be answered. 3. To ignore any question which has been around longer than one year.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: Even knowing it was but a statue carved by man did little to reduce his wonder. Choices: 1. A man carved the statue. 2. A man carved the statue of the deer. 3. A woman had whittled the statue.

A:
2
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