TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft. Sentence 2: Microsoft is a hostile corporation.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: No, he must ride a tighter rein on his imagination. Sentence 2: He was letting his imagination get the better of him.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: For example, DOT had established an Internet web site that housed regulatory information for every agency within the department and was searchable in a variety of ways. Sentence 2: The DOT website housed regulatory information for 10 agencies.

SOLUTION:
government