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.

Q: Statement: The trotting race is a particularly exciting event to watch. Choices: 1. The trotting race involves 15 horses and lasts 3 hours. 2. One can watch a trotting race and it's exciting. 3. Nobody likes to watch the trotting race due to lack of entertainment.

A: 1
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Q: Statement: About half of it, however, is out of bounds to all but the military, but that still leaves huge areas of sand and surf. Choices: 1. The entire beach is open to the public. 2. The sand is a bright white. 3. Half of the area is off limits to the general public.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: as far as you know what what is the duties of this political office and uh and what are the characteristics or what what are the issued statements and uh spoken goals of the uh candidates Choices: 1. To your knowledge what are the responsibilities and expressed goals of this political office? 2. What are the three specific jobs for this office, as well as the characteristics and goals? 3. You don't know about this office and the characteristics found within.

A:
2
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