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.

Statement: And the doubly-damned fools had let Menes drive millions of slaves to death to build a pyramid to the sky when there were already natural columns that could have been used! Choices: 1. Menes had a pyramid built to the sky but could have used the natural columns they were there. 2. Menes was going to build a pyramid, but decided to use the natural columns. 3. Menes wanted to go to the sky to challenge the Vampire Lord.
3

Statement: What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat. Choices: 1. Commoditization works for industrialized nations not by being a reality but by being a threat. 2. Commoditization works not by being a reality but by being a threat. 3. Commoditization works not by being a threat but by being a reality.
1

Statement: Yet he was sure Ser Perth was serious; there was no humor on the face of the prissy thin-mustached man before him. Choices: 1. Ser Perth was hiding his true nature. 2. Ser Perth appeared serious. 3. Ser Perth was clean shaven.

1