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: to confront questions as old as human civilization itself. Choices: 1. To answer ancient, age-old queries. 2. To address questions which will never be answered. 3. To ignore any question which has been around longer than one year.

SOLUTION: 2

PROBLEM: Statement: uh when the public whole is at stake Choices: 1. When only family members are at stake. 2. When the general population is at stake. 3. When the safety of the public is at stake.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: no huh-uh i've never seen anything out i never seen the great i've seen Choices: 1. No kidding, I've never seen anything as great as what I've seen. 2. Besides not having seen what greatness I've seen, I also haven't felt it too. 3. I've actually witnessed something greater.

SOLUTION:
2