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: In any case, offering an assessment of an encyclopedia without having read it is like assessing an issue of Slate that hasn't been posted. Choices: 1. Encyclopedias are worthy of diligent assessment as to their worth. 2. Effective reviewers will have taken time to read and study the object under review. 3. Literary reviews are totally worthless and without merit.

2