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.

[EX Q]: Statement: I remembered Mary as she lay white and exhausted on the sofa, listening, listening.  Choices: 1. Mary lay pale on the sofa as she listened. 2. What Mary was listening to made her pale in the face. 3. Mary sat on the sofa as she listened.
[EX A]: 2

[EX Q]: Statement: The latter factor exists because postal systems need to be designed to handle a wide range of mailpieces, generated by a wide range of mailers. Choices: 1. Postal systems only need to handle one kind of mailpiece. 2. Some of the mailers using the postal system do not know what they're doing. 3. A wide range of mailers are likely to use the postal system.
[EX A]: 2

[EX Q]: Statement: Taking him into my confidence would be the best thing either way, so I told him everything except where I believed the papers to be hidden. Choices: 1. I told him everything except where I believed the papers to be hidden, including what they contained and how I'd come into possession of them in the first place.  2. I told him where I believed the papers to be hidden.  3. I told him everything except where I believed the papers to be hidden. 
[EX A]:
1