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1. This is a simple idiom question. The correct idiom is 'between and both' only, as in B. All others are wrong.

2. There are situations in which one can drop the connector 'that'. In addition, the use of 'that' is beyond the scope of this question as it is supposed to fall under the non-underlined part, after all.

I wonder if you could shed some light on specific situations in which one can drop the conjunction "that". Is there any particular rule or kind of?

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Answer is option B due to the parallelism being right in this case.
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The idiomatic way of using ‘between’ in this case is ‘between … and’. Think of simpler examples to make it easier to check.

Or simplify the question: … astronomers were divided between those… and those…

All the other options are wrong here because only Option B correctly uses this idiom.

Eliminate Options A, C, D, and E.

Option B is your best choice.

Hope this helps!
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