TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Statement: It shone now like a tiny bit of white-hot metal; but the older man touched it, and it snuggled down into Dave's chest, dimming its glow and somehow purring. Choices:  1. The older man was unable to touch it. 2. Dave was immune to it's heat. 3. The tiny metal snuggled into Dave's chest.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: Although public attention focuses on the trust fund insolvency dates, the effect of financing Social Security and Medicare will be felt sooner as the baby boom generation begins to retire. Choices:  1. Although public attention focuses on the farming land insolvency dates, they should really be worried about tax refunds. 2. Social Security and Medicare will be insolvent by 2020. 3. We'll see the struggle in financing Medicare as soon as the baby boomers begin to come of age.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: The president is in a strong enough position now to take his own rhetoric on reforming entitlements (which he added to his address at the last minute) seriously, and to drop leftover junk ideas from the campaign like the Victims Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Choices:  1. The president is in the strongest position he will ever hold. 2. A Victims Rights Amendment to the Constitution was not part of the campaign. 3. The president has rhetoric on reforming entitlements.

SOLUTION:
3