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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.
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Statement: Whatever improvements have been made to the county's transportation system, they are not going to make you feel any better when you're stuck in that unavoidable traffic jam. Choices: 1. There are no traffic jams in the county. 2. The transportation system is still congested despite recent improvements. 3. The county's transportation system can't meet the demands of the commuters.
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3

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Statement: But this caveat has a The prospect of future punishments gives you an incentive to investigate the corporation's history before you buy, which improves the chance that bad behavior can be uncovered while the actual perpetrators can still be punished. Choices: 1. CEOs often avoid punishment by selling their businesses. 2. The prospect of punishment won't encourage research into the history of a corporation. 3. Threats of punishment encourage you to research companies before purchase.
answer:
1

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Statement: Ashkenazi Israelis include early-20th-century idealists from eastern Europe who founded Israel's famous kibbutz movement, along with families who escaped from Berlin and Frankfurt in the 1930s and built fashionable Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Rehavia, lined with stone buildings influenced by the Bauhaus and International schools of architecture. Choices: 1. Rehavian buildings are built entirely of wood. 2. Ashkenazi idealists founded the kibbutz movement in Israel. 3. Rehavia has undergone recent architectural renovations.
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3