TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a statement, and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence clearly disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3' corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
PROBLEM: Statement: Why should they allow the district's residents to enjoy a federal tax rate of, say, 15 percent, when they themselves may face rates close to 40 percent? Choices:  1. Why should the residents be allowed to have a lower tax rate?  2. They don't want the residents to have a lower rate because they are facing rates as close to 10 percent too.  3. They should allow the residents to have a lower tax rate because most of them are poor. 

SOLUTION: 2

PROBLEM: Statement: I guess that'll be all right! said a new voice, with a transatlantic intonation, "though I'd like to point out, here and now, that things are getting a mite difficult. Choices:  1. We don't have much time to do this! 2. No, scrap that and come up with a new plan! 3. Things are beginning to get a little rough, but that'll work.

SOLUTION: 2

PROBLEM: Statement: absolutely absolutely now i can't wait for uh i i could just picture what's what's going to happen here in the not to distant future we keep hearing well we're going to receive uh eight billion dollars from Japan for the uh uh uh the uh uh the the the big war over there in the Mideast Choices:  1. We keep hearing that Japan is going to give us eight billion dollars to help fight the war in the Mideast. 2. I couldn't care less what happens here in the not so distant future. 3. We could win the war with or without Japan's support.

SOLUTION:
2