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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.
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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.
answer:
1


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Statement: Whatever improvements have been made to the county's transportation system, they are not going to make you feel any better when you're stuck in that unavoidable traffic jam. Choices: 1. There are no traffic jams in the county. 2. The transportation system is still congested despite recent improvements. 3. The county's transportation system can't meet the demands of the commuters.
answer:
3


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Statement: For now you can turn back and away from the town. Choices: 1. You can turn away from the town until the fire starts. 2. You are not able to turn away from the town. 3. You can turn away from the town, for now.
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1