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: GAO relies on a workforce of highly trained professionals who hold degrees in many academic disciplines, such as accounting, law, engineering, public and business administration, economics, and the social and physical sciences. Choices: 1. Masters degrees are required regardless of academic background. 2. People from many differing academic backgrounds work for GAO. 3. GAO only hires people from accounting backgrounds.

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Statement: The dry-cleaning bills were ridiculous. Choices: 1. I couldn't believe how cheap the dry cleaning was.  2. It cost $200 to have one article dry cleaned. 3. The dry-cleaning was expensive. 

SOLUTION: 2

PROBLEM: Statement: This assumption is made to ensure proper calculation of the ozone statistic used in the exposure-response functions. Choices: 1. It is assumed that the ozone will continue to deplete. 2. Assumptions were not used to make the ozone calculation. 3. An assumption is used to make the ozone calculation.

SOLUTION:
1