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托福阅读时事练习：伦敦巫术 激情犯罪 小马过河为大家准备了“托福阅读时事练习：伦敦巫术 激情犯罪”， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 　　Books and Arts;Book review;Black magic in London; 　　文艺;书评;伦敦巫术; 　　Crimes of passion;The Boy in the River. By Richard Hoskins. 　　激情犯罪;《河里的男孩》，理查德·霍斯金斯着。 　　In the late 1980s Richard Hoskins, young and newly married, spent six years as a missionary in Bolobo, upriver from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. Now back in Britain and something of an Africa specialist, he advises the authorities on tribal and ritual crimes. In his new book, “The Boy in the River”, Mr Hoskins argues that these atrocities are a perversion of African belief systems and highly unusual. 　　在二十世纪八十年代早期，年轻且新婚不久的理查德·霍斯金斯，在博洛博(地名)做了六年的传教士，该地位于刚果首都，金沙萨市的上游。现今已返回英国，有几分非洲专家味道的他，在部落和宗教式犯罪问题上给当局提出相关建议。在他的新书《河里的男孩》中，霍斯金斯先生说这些暴行是对非洲信仰的一种曲解，是极不寻常的。 　　His first case, in 2002, involved the mutilated torso of a boy they named Adam, found in the River Thames. The police thought it was a muti killing, a South African practice that involves removing organs for use in tribal medicines. Mr Hoskins recognised that Adam was in fact a human sacrifice (a term the police initially recoiled at) by a Nigerian tribe. His evidence was the precise slit in the victim’s neck and a body drained of blood—a divine tribute that is condemned as juju, or black magic, in West Africa. The boy’s killer has not yet been convicted, but the investigation did uncover a trafficking ring that smuggled African children to Britain for such ritualistic abuses. 　　在2002年，他的第一个案例：在泰晤士河中发现的一名为亚当(Adam)的男孩的残缺躯体。警方认为这是起巫术杀人案(见注释)，这是一种南非部落习俗，取出人体器官以作药用。霍斯金斯先生辨认出亚当实际上是一个尼日利亚部族的活人祭品(一个警方最初所不愿提及的术语)。他给出的证据是受害人脖子上精确的切口和鲜血流尽的躯体—一种被谴责为juju(某些西非部族所用的物神)的“神圣”礼物，或者可称为西非的巫术。杀死男孩的凶手仍未被定罪，但通过此次调查，警方却发现了一个偷运非洲儿童，卖到英国作为仪式献祭的走私集团。 　　Mr Hoskins and his wife suffered their own tragedy in Congo; one of their twins was stillborn, the other died before she was two. He admits his work presents emotional challenges. But he is not overly sentimental. He writes about criminology