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 movie reeks of film-student overkill (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy  [I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view. Sentence 2: Critics have claimed that the movie is sophomoric. 

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: In the shimmering heat of the desert the water continually evaporates, leaving behind strangely-shaped salt formations and water with a mineral content some 30 percent more concentrated than ordinary sea water. Sentence 2: The salt formations in the desert are caused by water evaporation.

SOLUTION: travel

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: A sidebar notes the political dynasties taking shape in the Bush, Cuomo, and Jackson families. Sentence 2: The sidebar notes the families that have fallen out of political dynasties over time.

SOLUTION:
slate