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: 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.

A: 1
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Q: Statement: Don't buy any unless you are an expert or have one with you. Choices: 1. Even if you're a novice, you should still buy one. 2. You need to have an expert with you if you want to buy one. 3. The expert will be able to tell if it is a fake.

A: 3
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Q: Statement: The Globe quotes a Kathie Lee interview in USA Today in which she explains  We stayed home. Choices: 1. Kathie Lee says they stayed home because they had food poisoning.  2. The Globe uses a quote that Kathie Lee made in an interview to the New York Times.  3. There's a Kathie Lee quote, from a USA Today interview, in the Globe.

A:
1
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