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: Nothing seemed to matter. Sentence 2: It seemed that nothing mattered.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: And the DVD format is gone, too. Sentence 2: The DVD format disappeared at the same time as the CD format.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Pursuing sharp reductions in CO2 from the electricity generating sector alone would cause a dramatic shift from coal to natural gas and thus would run the risk of endangering national energy security, substantially increasing energy prices and harming consumers. Sentence 2: Sharp reductions in CO2 would cause a dramatic shift from coal to natural gas.

SOLUTION:
government