| The fast social and economic development has greatly boosted China's exchanges with the rest world with the demands for qualified interpreters being constantly on the increase. With the development of information technologies, new forms of interpreting arise, posing new challenges for interpreters. Comparing to other varieties of interpreting, simultaneous interpreting with PowerPoint materials, as a relatively new interpreting variety, involves different requirements on attention sharing.According to Gile's Effort Model, only when different efforts are well coordinated can interpretation fulfill. In his model, four efforts are involved, namely listening and analysis effort, production effort, memory effort, and coordination effort. However, in SI with PPT materials, one more effort should be added to the model, reading effort. This paper is designed to find the effect of this effort on other efforts, and then on the whole interpretation process: whether performance is enhanced or hindered by the added feature of visual presentation.This paper is composed of five parts, including three chapters in between.The first part, a brief introduction, unveils the overall structure and questions to be discussed in this paper, with initial clarification on some ideas.The first chapter consists of an overview on past researches regarding attention sharing and simultaneous interpreting. In the second chapter, theoretical foundation is laid based on which a paper-specific analysis is rendered. Chapter three is devoted to the empirical study where experiment results demonstrate that proper use of PPT materials promote interpreters'performance; otherwise, the performance is hindered. Recommendations on interpreting training and coping tactics are also provided in this part.The whole thesis comes to a natural conclusion in the last part which wraps up the research findings, problems spotted and sparkles further research in this direction.
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