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.

Q: Statement: Spike and Jimi are the only street theater going, but the cameras ignore them. Choices:  1. The only street theaters going are Spike and Jimi, because they get all the cameras' attention. 2. The only street theaters going are Spike and Jimi, even if they are ignored by the cameras, said the news. 3. The only street theaters going are Spike and Jimi, even if they are ignored by the cameras.

A: 3
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Q: Statement: One buys them for other  for powerful photographs, now often in color, of underwear models; for a chance encounter with an embarrassing detail about Ron Perelman; and perhaps most of all, for that lovable Marmaduke cartoon. Choices:  1. The only reason to buy them is for the cutting political commentary. 2. Ron Perelman features every week. 3. You can see underwear models, a cartoon, and juicy celebrity gossip in them.

A: 3
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Q: Statement: So the last hope of solving the mystery, by means of Mrs. Inglethorp's correspondence on the fatal evening, had to be abandoned.  Choices:  1. There was still hope of solving the mystery. 2. The police had been looking into Mrs. Inglethorp's death. 3. There was now no hope of solving the mystery.

A:
3
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