1．relevant adj. 有关的；切题的
[教材原句] Sometimes I wonder how relevant chemistry is to these students, most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway.
有时候，我真想知道化学和这些学生究竟有多大的关系，他们中的大多数人学完八年级就要回到他们的村庄去了。
(1)be relevant to...＝have sth. to do with
与……有关
be irrelevant to... 与……不相关
(2)relevantly adv. 有关联地；有关系地
(3)relevance n. 有关；牵连
have relevance to 与……有关
单句语法填空
①The new machine's ________(relevant) detailed functions have to be further studied.
②The facts he supplied were not relevant ________ the case in question.
完成句子
③I don't think what he said ________________________ we are discussing. He has missed the point.
我认为他的发言和我们正在讨论的话题无关，他没有抓住要领。
句型转换
④The government set up a working group to collect information relevant to the accident.
→The government set up a working group to collect information ________________________________________________________________________/______________________ the accident.
[答案] ①relevantly ②to ③is relevant to the topic ④which/that was relevant to; which/that had relevance to
[思维发散] 多样表达“与……有关”：be related to; be connected with; be involved in; be associated with; be linked to/with。
