Interpreting is multimodal in nature as its meaning potential can be realized by various semiotic resources: linguistic mode, audio information, gestural expressions, spatial arrangement and visual images. Hence the interpreting performance evaluation. Drawing on Seleskovitch’s interpretive theory and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (Ledin & Machin, 2019), I conduct a qualitative analysis based on the observation of the video recordings of 2016 Cross-strait Chinese English Interpreting Contest-The Final Round to illustrate the process of meaning-making and meaning transfer process through multimodal synergies. The multimodal interpretive model (MIM) emphasizes that all meaning-making and meaning transfer parameters should be taken into account in interpreting performance evaluation. Compared the multimodal expressions in the source and target text, four cognitive operation patterns are identified. Through these cognitive operations, interpreters can achieve communicative goals.