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.

Statement: For example, management approval was needed before individuals could share information about potentially sensitive incidents and vulnerabilities. Choices: 1. Management approval was needed before individuals could share information about incidents and vulnerabilities  2. Management oversaw everything  3. Management approval was not needed to submit a report
2

Statement: Although the activities of city and rural carriers are similar, some minor differences  Choices: 1. City carriers have more stops on their routes than rural carriers. 2. Rural and city carriers have similar activities, but they are not exactly the same. 3. City and Rural carries have completely identical activities.
1

Statement: But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant. Choices: 1. Yeltsin did not make his appointment. 2. The appointment that Yeltsin made was intriguing and lured a lot of people in. 3. Yeltsin's appoint showed a lot of surprise. 

2