In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
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Question: Statement: The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit. Choices:  1. They love to defend this awful idea because it means that they are the top dogs in the world. 2. Nobody will come around to defend this idea. 3. People will come from far and wide to defend this mean idea.

Answer: 3


Question: Statement: This was 1971, not 1917! Choices:  1. This was the year 1971, not the year 1917. 2. This was 1971, but people were acting like it was 1917. 3. This was 1917, and 1971 wouldn't come around for another fifty years.

Answer: 1


Question: Statement: One year later, the three federally-funded legal services programs requested that the ATJ Board appoint a committee to oversee the planning process outlined in LSC's 1995 Program Letter. Choices:  1. A committee was requested to make sure that things were done efficiently. 2. A committee was put in place to oversee the plans. 3. There was no committee requested, even though it should have been.

Answer:
2