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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: Although the activities of city and rural carriers are similar, some minor differences  Choices: 1. City carriers have more stops on their routes than rural carriers. 2. Rural and city carriers have similar activities, but they are not exactly the same. 3. City and Rural carries have completely identical activities.
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1


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Statement: Thorn lay on the ground staring up at a sky he no longer recognized. Choices: 1. Thorn was not familiar with the sky he was looking up at .  2. Thorn stood on the dock looking down at the water.  3. Thorn had never seen so much smoke in the sky, a bright day suddenly turned black. 
answer:
3


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Statement: Because, so long as the evidence against him was vague and intangible, it was very hard to disprove.  Choices: 1. Finding the truth is a long and arduous journey.  2. The evidence is circumstantial enough to make guilt believable, but he could also be completely innocent. 3. Proving your guilt or innocence is very easy to do when someone makes a charge against you. 
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1