Pronunciation and intonation.mp3

麻烦老师帮我听听我的语调是不是很奇怪，我被两个老师评价语调很奇怪，和别人不一样。但我真的是参考美音资料练了挺久的，之前还对自己的语调挺有自信的，被不同老师说了两三次后我在想是不是我在方向上根本就错了，改也不知道怎么改。语音问题我之前问过我的外教了，当时我当时没想过我语调有大问题，就没问这方面，他也没提。谢谢老师！

以下是原文：

We've learned three big lessons about relationships. The first is that social connections are really good for us, and that loneliness kills. It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected. And the experience of loneliness turns out to be toxic. People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely. And the sad fact is that at any given time, more than one in five Americans will report that they're lonely. And we know that you can be lonely in a crowd and you can be lonely in a marriage, so the second big lesson that we learned is that it's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship, but it's the quality of your close relationships that matters. It turns out that living in the midst of conflict is really bad for our health. High-conflict marriages, for example, without much affection, turn out to be very bad for our health, perhaps worse than getting divorced. And living in the midst of good, warm relationships is protective.