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: I said, 'I'm sorry about the tree, and I guess the new bulbs will be on me. Sentence 2: I was not sorry that the tree did not meet expectations.  

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: It was like something out of some picture--something about Cagliostro, the ancient mystic. Sentence 2: It was an ordinary event that would be too boring for a movie to portray.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: By contrast, under the consolidation Executive Director John Atlas and Thorne will likely lose their jobs, which last year brought them $131,319 and $114,031, respectively. Sentence 2: This consolidation will allow both directors to keep their jobs.

SOLUTION:
government