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: Traditionally, federal agencies have used the amount of money directed toward their programs, or the level of staff deployed, or even the number of tasks completed as some of the measures of their performance. Sentence 2: The federal agencies thus far has put the money towards their programs.

SOLUTION: government

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: There were history textbooks left lying around, like scattered treasure. Sentence 2: All the history books were about World War II.

SOLUTION:
fiction