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: They won the war… . Choices: 1. They had achieved victory in combat. 2. They had won every battle of the war. 3. They suffered a defeat in the war.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: It will be a lightning rod for controversy, he predicted.  Choices: 1. He predicted that it would spark controversy greatly.  2. He predicted that the controversy would die down within a few weeks.  3. He predicted that it wouldn't cause any controversy. 

A: 2
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Q: Statement: Such approvals represent that the actual work schedule recorded by the employee or timekeeper is to the best of Choices: 1. The approvals represent real work schedules recorded by employees.  2. The work schedules are much too short.  3. Approvals do not take work schedule time into account. 

A:
2
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