TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: 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.

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Statement: HCFA also determined that the rule could have a significant impact on other classes of hospitals as well. Choices: 1. HCFA determined that the the rule would only effect one class of hospitals. 2. Financially, it will cost a lot for hospitals to comply with the rule. 3. HCFA found that the rule could largely impart other classes of hospitals as well.

SOLUTION: 2

PROBLEM: Statement: Similarly, readiness to cut down may not coincide with readiness to abstain. Choices: 1. In the same way, readiness to cut down may note be related to readiness to abstain. 2. Readiness to change always coincide with readiness to abstain. 3. Some patients are more ready to cut down than others.

SOLUTION:
3