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: The third-most-visited Gore site, according to Direct Hit, is an Al Gore joke repository, posted on the home page of a GeoCities member and sponsored by the Ripon College Republicans. Choices: 1. The grop agrees with it a.. 2. The College Republicans disagree with everything on the side. 3. The Ripon College Republicans host the GeoCities site.

SOLUTION: 2

PROBLEM: Statement: We have joined in this fight to protect the town. Choices: 1. We do not want any part in protecting the town. 2. We will help protect the town against the warfare.  3. We are going to help protect the town. 

SOLUTION: 2

PROBLEM: Statement: But poetry is a rough business, requiring eternal optimism about the possibility of publication, even if gloom is considered the Proper Poetical Stance on most other issues. Choices: 1. Poets are miserable people who are optimistic only about the possibility of publishing their gloomy poetry.  2. Poets must have an eternal optimism about the possibility of being published.  3. The Proper Poetical Stance on most issues is to be incredibly upbeat. 

SOLUTION:
1