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: Of course, growth was faster during some periods-the 1950s and 1960s, and the second half of the 1990s-and slower during other periods-the 1970s. Choices: 1. Growth has continued to slow. 2. Some periods have faster growth than the others. 3. Growth increased the most in the 1990's.

3