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: That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need. Sentence 2: Transportation policy and lubrication policy are chosen by who is most in need in our village.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The waters around the coast are some of the clearest in the world and the depths are filled with amazing coral and many species of fish and other marine creatures. Sentence 2: The waters contain absolutely no marine creatures at all.

SOLUTION: travel

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: I've lived through such damning times before, and I know that they are sometimes necessary.' Sentence 2: It is sometimes necessary to have bad times. 

SOLUTION:
fiction