美好的晚年(中英对照).docVIP

The Golden Years 　　My best friend, Cocoa, and I live in a senior-citizen apartment complex1 in a lovely small town. Cocoa is a ten-year-old poodle2 and I am a sixty-nine-yea-old lady, so you can see we both qualify as senior citizens. 　　Years ago, I promised myself that when I retired I would get a chocolate poodle to share my golden years. From the very first, Cocoa has always been exceptionally well-behaved3. I never have to tell him anything more than once. He was housebroken4 in three days and has never done anything naughty. He is extremely neat--when taking his toys from his box to play