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.
Input: Statement:  Then they began passing over desolate country, scoured by winds, gloomy from the angry, glaring clouds above. Choices: 1. They started to go over desolate country ravaged by winds and gloomy form the clouds overhead. 2. This area used to be thriving with society before it was attacked and abandoned. 3. They refused to go over the desolate country.

2