question=None,
            yes_reply=None,
            no_reply=None):
  """Get boolean input from user.

  If var_name is not set in env, ask user to enable query_item or not. If the
  response is empty, use the default.

  Args:
    environ_cp: copy of the os.environ.
    var_name: string for name of environment variable, e.g. "TF_NEED_CUDA".