Professions and to be in past

1 . Do you like this painting ? My mother ____________________ a painter whe she ____________________ young .
2 . Peter and Maria ____________________ only teachers , they ____________________ also ____________________ in a laboratory .
3 . When she ____________________ little , she wanted to be a ____________________ player . Now , she wants to be a basketball player .
4 . Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ____________________ the first men on the moon . They ____________________ astronauts .
5 . Gloria Fuertes wasn't a ____________________ , she ____________________ a writer .